The Angel's Game
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafo]n ; translated by Lucia Graves
Contributors: Graves, Lucia
Edition: UK Hardcover Large print edition
Series: Cemetery of Forgotten Books -- 02
Publisher: Windsor | Paragon
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: El Juego del Ángel
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 615
ISBN-13: 9781408461341
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Authors; Fiction; Novelists; Antiquarian booksellers
Description: In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. 

Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has existed—a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realises that there is a connection between this haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.
--back cover
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.